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MARINE REVIEW. , 9 City of Buffalo--Finest Side-Wheel Steamer on the Lake. In an elegant colored supplement accompanying this issue of the REVIEW there is presented avery good picture of the new Cleveland & Buffalo line steamer City of Buffalo, which will, about two weeks hence, leave the works of the Detroit Dry Dock Co., fully equipped for service between C'eveland and Buffalo. This supplement is produced by what is known as the photo-chromotype or three-color printing process. The REVIEW was one of the first publications in the country to give attention to this process of color printing, and the success attained with pictures of ships has been far in advance of anything of the kind accomplished in other lines. - This new Cleveland and Buffalo line boat merits a full description, as she will be by great odds the finest side-wheel steamer on the lakes. Her cost complete will be full $350,000, and her owners confidently expect that she will attain a speed of twenty miles an hour in regular service. The City of Buffalo was designed by Frank PB. Kirby of the Detroit Dry Dock Co., who designed and built the City of Cleveland, City of De- troit and other big side-wheel steamers of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. In general outward appearance the City of Buffalo will resemble the big side-wheel steamers of the D. & C. Co., but her single stack will give hera more trim appearance, and she will be not only larger but a far more powerful ship. Her principal dimensions are: Length on waterlitie.::.asdos sa endureen tats. 298 ft. Wen pth over alle cnesccoc. etnat «ys onerenereeateries aceee. 308 ' Breadthyover he ly (sits) issue. eee cossee tease cee 41 " Breadth overall (mis) <é.cscecsasacececovensetomeee sen eeeee 75 "* Depth miashipyscs aca coe cc ceoa eecteecery nee ives dein, Draft, ight. ccncsnc.cc. sti aan serene ee aissaa ae Oe Olas Draft loaded. sicasecence icant er ae ee es Gi The hull, which is of steel, is divided into eleven compartments, communication between which is by automatic water-tight doors, which can be operated from the deck. Coal bunkers are athwart ship, forward and aft of the boilers, and have capacity for about 350 tons of coal, a sup- ply sufficient for several trips. Engines were built by the W. & A. Fletcher Co. of New York and are of the compound beam type, with a high pressure cylinder 52 inches by 8 feet and alow pressure cylinder of 80 inches by 12 feet stroke. Engines are fitted with Sickle's valve gear, which will cut off at any point of the stroke while the engine is in motion, and there is also a pressure feed water heater of sufficient capacity to condense steam from all of the engines, some sixteen in number. In comparing the main engines of this ship with those of other side-wheel steamers on the lakes it may be noted that no other steamer of her type has a cylinder exceeding 68 inches in diamter, ; Boilers are of the Scotch type, six in number, each 12 feet 6 inches in diameter by 12 feet length, and the quality and thickness of material in them is such that under government inspection they are allowed 125 pounds per square inch workirg pressure. Each boiler has two furnaces. The gross weight of the six boilers is 250 tons without water and about 500 tons when filled with water. The Howden system of hot draft, for which the Detroit Dry Dock Co. has the agency in this country, and which has been or is now being fitted to nearly half a hundred lake steamers, will be applied to the boilers of this stesemer. The elliptical smoke stack is 7 by 9 feet and 65 feet high. Wheels are of the Clyde feathering type, 30 feet 6 inches in diameter, and when set up complete weigh 58 tons each. All parts are made so as to be interchangeable in either wheel. Bushings are of bronze, and from the advantage taken generally of the latest practice in constructing these wheels it is expected that lost motion will be largely overcome, and the jar usually experienced from the motion of wheels of this kind reduced toaminimum. The main shafts are 29 feet long and 24 inches diameter, and weigh 18% tons each. They. were forged by the Cleveland City Forge & Iron Co. | An electric light plant capable of supplying 1,500 to 2,000 lamps, in addition to a search light, has been fitted by the Fontaine Crossing Co. of Detroit. As in other passenger ships of this kind on the lakes the entire main deck forward of the passenger gangways, which are some distance aft of the wheel houses, will be given up to freight. In fact, the main object of adopting the side-wheel type of steamer for service of the kind in which the City of Buffalo will be engaged is to provide great floor space on the main deck for freight. Space of this kind in this steamer is thought to be sufficient for about 800 tons of general merchandise. The first apartment entered from the passenger gangways will in this boat be called the social hall. It is finished in light mahogany, highly carved, and the decorations are equal tothose in the most elegant part of the ship. Adjoining this social hall are the purser's and steward's offices and. the baggage room, and aft of it, in the extreme stern of the vessel, is a day cabin, from which entrance may be had to two small dining rooms, intended for the accommodation of private dining parties. The main dining room is below the main deck but it is elegantly furnished, and with a spacious stairway leading from the social hall it is far more invit- ing than dining rooms thus situated on many other steamers. It is fin- ished in oak and will seat about 150 people. Kitchen and pantry are also below the main deck forward of the dining room. Service will be on the European plan, aside from passage or state-room accommodation, The grand saloon, or the upper part of the ship, from which entrance is gained to all state-rooms, is 250 feet long and is surrounded by a gallery that leads to the second tier of state-rooms. 'This part of the steamer is, ofcourse, most elaborately finished. The lower portion is in solid dark mahogany, with pressed leather panelings of artistic design, while parts surrounding and above the gallery will be of delicate tints with gold tracings. Furniture and upholstery are of designs harmonizing with the general surroundings. Accommodations for passengers travel- ing by night on this ship include 160 state rooms, besides six parlors with bath and other accommodations, and 150 single berths, making in all berths for 640 people. ; -- A steam capstan windlass and dock steam capstan on -this steamer were furnished by the American Ship Windlass Co. of Providence, R. I.; anchors by De Grauw, Aymar & Co., New York, through D. Osier of West Bay City, their lake representative; signal lights by Russell & Watson of Buffalo, and dining room Jinens as well as the entire outfitting of state- rooms by the Taylor-Woolfenden Co. of Detroit. Quality of Material in Rockefellers Ships. The following notes, which are made a part of specificaticns govern- ing the construction of the two 400 foot steamers that are being built by the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland, for Mr. John D. Rockefeller, will serve to indicate the quality of material used in modern freight steamers on the lakes: "All plating to be of open hearth mild steel, tested to the following specifications: Tensile strength to be not less than,54,000 not more than 62,000:pounds per square inch. Limit of phosphorus not to exceed .08; elongation to be not less than 24 per cent. in 8 inches, and reduction to be not less than 45 per cent. Reports of tests are to be furnished with invoices, and plates are not to be run over or under theo- retical weight more than 2% per cent. ~All plates are to be of: open hearth steel. All shapes that: are furnace shaped are also to be of open hearth steel. All other shapes can be of Bessemer steel or open hearth steel as desired by the builder. Rivets are to be of the best open hearth steel, the limit of phosphorus to be .06, limit of sulphur .06 and tensile strength to be not less than 52,000 or more than 60,000 pounds per square inch; or, at the option of the builders, to be of the first-class. quality of iron rivit material, of not less than 50,000 tensile strength per square inch. Materialsjare to be tested at makers' works to these requirements by a disinterested party to represent both steel maker and ship builder and to be appointed by the ship builder; provided that in case of angles channels, beams and Z bars, the certified reports of tests made at the laboratory of the Pencoyd Iron Works will be accepted by the owner." Association of Masters and Pilots. Capt. Benjamin F. Perkins, grand captain's clerk, (grand secretary) of the American Association of Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels is still meeting with marked success in organizing branches of this organization on the lakes. At Toledo a few days ago he organized harbor No. 43 with thirty members, and in addition to these several new members will be admitted at the next voyage. Names of those who have been elected as officers of the Toledo harbor are as follows: Captain, Albert S. Fitts; first pilot, John Cunningham; second pilot, Edward Williams; captain's clerk and purser, John Nagle. This harbor will meet every Tuesday in the marine engineers' rooms until further ordered. A committee of three was appointed to look after any grievances of members during the sea- son of navigation. Capt. John A. Donahue, who died of typhoid fever at his home on Twenty-third avenue, Cleveland, Monday, had been in the Bradley employ for a number of years. He was with Capt. J. A. Holmes, president of the ~ Cleveland lodge, Ship Masters' Association, in vessels of the Bradley fleet before he was given command of the steamer Superior in 1894. During the greater part of last year he sailed the steamer Ranney. Capt. Dona- hue was only twenty-eight years old and had a bright future, as his friends on the lakes were numerous. Capt. Holmes was especially interested in his welfare. i The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Co's steamers are now running daily (except Sunday) between Detroit and Cleveland. When traveling east or west, north or south, try to arrange to take advantage of these luxurious steamers between Michigan and Ohio. If you are con- templating a summer outing, write A. A. Schantz, general passenger ' agent, Detroit, for illustrated pamphlet, which gives full information of a trip to Mackinac via the coast line. Telegrams from the Sault say it will not be safe for boats to load below - 13 feet 6 inches on the first trip butitis expected the water will rise a litile shortly after the opening.